Marvel’s previously announced New Warriors show featuring Squirrel Girl will not be airing on Freeform (ABC Family) as it had been reported. The Hollywood Reporter says “Marvel will shop the live-action comedy to other outlets. Sources say there has been some talk that the 10-episode series from Kevin Biegel (Enlisted) could be taken to Disney’s forthcoming subscription streaming service, though insiders stress that’s a long shot.”

Even if Marvel didn’t exist, we’d struggle. There was a style they were going for, an attempt to be different and look at things from a slightly different perspective, which hasn’t necessarily worked. Yes, it has made money but it has not been a critical success; it hasn’t given everyone that sensation which superheroes should give the viewer…I feel like now the right mistakes have been made and they haven’t been pandered [to], and we can start telling the stories in the way they need to be told. It is even better to come back from a mistake or stylistic error into the correct vein because it will make it seem that much stronger. Wonder Woman was the first step in the right direction.

DreadCentral just informed me of some very exciting news. Family Film Productions is working on a documentary about one of my favorite films of all time – Return to Oz. It is titled Remembering Return to Oz and it will feature star Fairuza Balk and as DreadCentral reports: “include interviews with director Walter Murch, producers Gary Kurtz and Paul Manslansky, composer David Shire, and actors Emma Ridley (Ozma), Justin Case (Scarecrow), Deep Roy (The Tinwoodsman), Denise Bryer (voice of Billina), Sophie Ward (Mombi #2), Fiona Victory (Mombi #3), Pons Maar (Lead Wheeler), Lyle Conway and Brian Henson (son of Muppets creator Jim Henson), who were the puppeteers and voices for the Gump and Jack Pumpkinhead, respectively.” The official Facebook page will have updates if you want to know more.

When I saw that Lion King casting I was sure it was a fan casting. It was way too obviously perfect. I nodded along all the way. “Sure, as long as we’re dreaming, why not Donald Glover and Beyonce? Oh, of course, bring James Earl Jones back, nobody else could ever be Mufasa.”

I’m excited for the Return to Oz doc. Netflix is also producing a documentary about Man on the Moon, with a bunch of footage that was always intended to be released but was apparently suppressed by the studio because Jim Carey is kind of a dick and it was a pretty volatile set. It’s a good doc news month!